Digital-oriented photography forum with a large equipment section, where threads on vintage tech and lenses are quite common. A lot of professionals and well informed enthusiasts are frequenting DPReview and it’s forums on a regular basis.

Reviews & tests

Extensive information on Minolta SLR body series, assorted cross-sections and gathered forum posts on nearly all Minolta lenses and last but definitely not least: Excellent group tests of all important lenses in the Minolta system on Sony NEX and α cameras with background info. Most of the site is in German. Use Google translate to read it in English.

Nice reviews with shots of test charts and exemplary shots of everyday use for a quite a lot of Minolta lenses on the Sony α7. Phillip Reeve also offers a wonderfully illustrated beginners guide to classic lenses on E-mount cameras.

Resolution figures for nearly 30 Minolta MC and MD lenses from Foto magazine (70s / 80s). The graphs include data for full f-stops up to f/11 and allow some direct comparisons for lenses which were build in multiple versions.

Aggregated user reviews of third party lenses with separate ratings for different lens characteristics. Originally for Pentax hardware, but many of the lenses were built with identical specs for Minolta MC / MD, too.

LensTagger is a plugin for Lightroom by Dirk Essel. It allows you to overwrite the lens info and pretty much everything else in your photo’s metadata (EXIF). Works for JPEGs and RAW/XMP files. LensTagger is based on the command line application ExifTool by Phil Harvey, which is even more powerful itself – but much less comfortable to use.

Very useful little application to overwrite the lens info in the metadata (EXIF) of your JPEGs and RAW/XMP files. In contrast to LensTagger, LensChanger only handles the lens-specific EXIF fields and nothing else. It is also unable to change the ‘focal length’-field.